Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey wants to end the war in Iran, release the Epstein files,

and balance the budget, eliminate the national debt.

But he is now facing a primary challenge backed by none other than Donald Trump.

So how did he become Donald Trump's enemy number one?

What does this mean for the future of the Republican Party?

And what, if anything, does all of this have to do with Ron Paul? Welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

This is your Libertarian Review of News and Culture from the editors of Reason Magazine and friends.

I'm your host, Peter Souterman. And today I am joined by my colleagues

Catherine Mangu Ward, Matt Welch, and Robbie Suave. Catherine, I want to start with you because you

wrote a great piece about Thomas Massey for The New York Times. You spent some time with him.

Sorry, I wrote The New York Times' endorsement of Tom and Thomas Massey. Yes, I've heard that.

Yeah. So just to be clear, that was not actually.

It was not. It was an opinion piece. It wasn't even, it wasn't even reason endorsing. We don't do that

because we don't do that here. Right. So one of the things you wrote about him that I thought was

interesting is that Trump calls Massey disloyal to America.

But your argument is the Republican Party

actually needs a lot more people like Thomas Massey.

Yeah, so I mean, I wanna start by saying,

Mangy Ward's Law, if there is such a thing,

applies here, and that is all politicians are garbage

and will disappoint you in the end.

So I really like Thomas Massey.

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